Official C&H Thread

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Cyanide and Happiness, the best comic in the world!

 

What is Cyanide an Happiness?

Cyanide and Happiness is a daily web-based comic at http://www.explosm.net, founded in 2005 by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, and Dave McElfatrickIt.

Cyanide & Happiness began as a small series of comics drawn by Kris Wilson at the age of 16. One day while at his home suffering from strep throat, Kris entertained himself by drawing comics by hand, and would later move on to drawing them on his computer. Kris created his own website called Comicazi, that allowed him to showcase his comics to others. Kris shared his comics with the forum of Stickdeath.com. The webmasters of Sticksuicide (Matt Melvin, Rob DenBleyker and Dave McElfatrick) eventually gave up on StickSuicide and started Explosm.net, a new site less focused on Flash Stick Death animation and more on art in general. They saw potential in Kris' comics, so they invited him to continue the comic daily with their help. Explosm is currently run by Matt, Rob, Dave, and Kris. The entire Explosm team now makes comics on a regular basis. The current name "Cyanide & Happiness" comes from a strip in which one character is selling cotton candy made of cyanide and happiness. The other character replies: "Happyness!?!? Hot damn! I'll take 4" In the past, Explosm has featured Guest Weeks, where readers submit entries to the administrators and the best are featured as daily comics over the course of the week. In a news post on the site on October 14, 2007 Rob announced that there was a project about to go underway to translate every comic in the archive into various languages. In a subsequent post Rob said that the response had been phenomenal with 1300 replies offering to translate into over 20 different languages. (Source - Wikipedia)

 

The style of Cyanide & Happiness is often described as dark, cynical and often offensive; it is sometimes interpreted as irreverent. Frequent topics of humor include disabilities, terrorism, rape, cancer, murder, necrophilia, pedophilia, sexual deviancy, STDs, suicide, eating disorders, abortion, and vehicular manslaughter. These topics are usually introduced in an unexpected or shocking way that is jarringly different from the natural "obvious" reading on the strip thus far. To paraphrase a common saying, the style could be described as "Practice random violence and senseless acts of pooping." However, this is not always the case, and some family-friendly jokes do exist buried among the offensive material. The comic does not always have a definite punchline in each strip, or may have several panels of "awkward silence" after (of) the punchline, with characters simply staring at each other. There are some recurring characters (some include Charles & his girlfriend, the Purple-Shirted Eye Stabber, Dr. Baby, Trelaf the Wise, Obese Maurice,The Personal Space Invader, superheroes like Seizure Man and Super Jerk, Dan the Downer, and Tall Justin), but otherwise there is a general lack of characterisation. Characters often act irrationally or nonsensically. The lack of characterization is supported by the primitive drawing style, of which the writers often make jokes about. Characters rarely have names and are usually only distinguishable by the colors of their shirts (although they might not exactly be shirts as in the comic published on September 6th 2009, the green character opens his clothing like if it was a coat). This naturally precludes most character-driven humor.The male characters almost always have no hair, which became a joke in itself. Female characters are distinguishable by their long hair and chest size, often used to comedic effect. Source: Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

If you don't like vulgarity, this comic isn't for you.

 

Now, start talking!

[Discordian 6,017]

Now don't get me wrong, I do love C&H but I wouldn't call it best comic ever personally. It's got a lot of great ones of course but I tend to like drama and romance more in my comics.

[XUNUSEDXXX 3,459]

lol i didnt exactly read your description, but i read the comic and that is pretty clever. maybe ill check these out later today

[Chill Mists (Chilly) 801]

I love cyanide and happiness, those comics make me laugh so much. I check Explosm.net daily. *Squeeze*